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Author Stewart, Frances, 1940-

Title Adjustment and poverty : options and choices / Frances Stewart
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations
Series Priorities for development economics
Priorities for development economics.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 2. impact of macro-adjustment policies on the incomes of the poor -- a review of alternative approaches -- 3. Meso-policy choices and the poor -- 4. Food subsidies: two errors of targeting / Frances Stewart / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- 5. Adjustment and social funds: political panacea or effective poverty reduction? / Frances Stewart / Willem van der Geest -- 6. Structural adjustment policies and the poor in Africa: an analysis of the 1980s / Frances Stewart / Anuradha Basu -- 7. Latin American and Caribbean story
Summary Annotation Do the structural adjustment policies of the World Bank/ IMF make the World's poorest people even poorer? Frances Stewart was one of the first people to start this debate with her book Adjustment with a Human Face. Returning to the subject half a decade latter she critically analyses the extent to which things have changed for the better
Analysis Developing countries Poverty
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World Bank -- Developing countries
International Monetary Fund -- Developing countries
SUBJECT International Monetary Fund fast
World Bank fast
Subject Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries
Poverty -- Developing countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Poverty
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203976401
9780203976401
9786610150236
6610150230
9780415091343
0415091349
9780415124362
0415124360